I woudl really like to enable pciex10ec,8161 as driver aliases for Realtek rge driver aliases, but it needs to be enabled at boot. The other day I were building SmartOS , but I only got boot archive.. boot-20260603T171934Z.tgz in /output I used the pkgbuild-lts image for the zone

Maybe I would do better with pkgbuild-trunk zone

you can create a custom /etc/driver_aliases that includes it as a boot module

jbk, and where to put it, since boot archive on USB is read-only ?

Even if bootable from HD, root archive actually is read-only

it's done as a separate file..

along side the boot archive and boot archive hash file

jbk, ok. let me try

shows how to do it with /etc/system

but should be the same principle for /etc/driver_aliases

(I believe after you select the PI at the boot loader menu, you can also drop to the ok prompt and do `set etc_driver_aliases_load=YES` etc

then type 'boot'

(if you want to first avoid modifying loader.conf.local and test it out)

note it's the suffix (_load, _type, ...) of the variable name that's key

jbk, thanks, let me digest this.